Alton Towers wait times

Live queues for every ride, plus what this park’s lines normally do — recorded here, because nobody publishes it.

Straight from the live feed. The tracker refreshes these every 10 seconds.

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Times come from the park’s own published schedule and can move or be cancelled on the day. Anything marked separate ticket needs its own admission, not just a park ticket.

Wait times ride by ride

44 rides have been recorded here often enough to show a pattern — typical wait by hour, busiest day, and how often each one is closed.

• Rita
• Wicker Man
• Galactica
• Spinball Whizzer
• The Smiler
• Nemesis Reborn
• TH13TEEN
• Bluey the Ride: Here Come The Grannies!
• Congo River Rapids
• Get Set Go Tree Top Adventure
• In The Night Garden Magical Boat Ride
• Oblivion
• Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure
• Runaway Mine Train
• Gangsta Granny: The Ride
• Go Jetters Vroomster Zoom Ride
• Monorail to Entrance Plaza
• Cuckoo Cars Driving School
• Nemesis Sub-Terra
• Hex - The Legend of the Towers
• Skyride to Forbidden Valley (from Dark Forest)
• Raj’s Bouncy Bottom Burp
• Amigos in the Afterlife
• Skyride to Dark Forest (From Forbidden Valley)
• Toxicator
• Monorail to Hotels & Car Parks
• Peter Rabbit Hippity Hop
• Skyride to Forbidden Valley (from Towers St.)
• Battle Galleons
• Heave Ho
• Trick O' Treat Town
• Marauder's Mayhem
• Justin's House Pie-O-Matic Factory
• Skyride to Towers St. (From Forbidden Valley)
• The Curse at Alton Manor
• The Royal Carousel
• Bugbie-Go-Round
• Hey Duggee’s Big Adventure Badge
• JoJo & Gran Gran At Home
• Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE
• The Alton Towers Exhibition
• The Gardens
• CARGO GLOBAL EATS Street food
• The Furchester Hotel Live Show

How busy does it usually get?

• Saturday is the busiest day we’ve measured, averaging 21 min across the park; Thursday is the quietest at 12 min.
• Queues are typically shortest around 10am (12 min) and longest around 5pm (19 min), park time — from 9 hours of the day with at least 3 readings each.

Based on 60 days of readings since 2026-07-17, covering 7 of 7 weekdays.

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About these numbers

Waits come from Merlin Entertainments’ public feed via queue-times.com, which updates every few minutes. The history is ours: this site takes its own readings on a rotation and folds them into per-hour and per-weekday averages, which is the only way to answer “is this line shorter than usual?”. Where the record is thin, the page says so instead of guessing.

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